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Artificial Intelligence attempts to "clean up" the Bible

The recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have allowed the creation of impressive, but also disturbing new tools.

"perspectiveapi" is one of those. Its goal is to detect inappropriate content in online conversations, allowing administrators to easily "clean up" their part of the web.

I wondered what that tool would think about highly respected texts, so I ran it on the Bible's verses: [url]bible.artimproved.com[/url]
I'd be glad to hear what you think of the tool's censoring choices.

[jimwalton]

It struck me as pretty funny, just tracing along the PC lines as invented by our culture. It's interesting to me that from Hollywood we hear that AI, though a magnificent achievement, also poses a great danger to humanity and civilization, and that in the hands of evil people technology is intrusive, abusive, controlling, and fear-inspiring. AI is often portrayed as problematic. Hollywood believes that AI may have knowledge but it will never have wisdom, and that AI without conscience and morality is evil. It would be a bit ironic and hypocritical if AI (and PC-oriented algorithms) were ever used to censor the Bible. It would be like the pot calling the kettle black, or the one with the log in their own eye trying to take the speck out of ours.

The movies I was referencing: The Matrix (1999), Star Wars II: The Attack of the Clones (2002), Ex Machina (2014), Helix (2015), The Circle (2017)